If he hadn’t dared me to swim past the sandbar, I wouldn’t be here. If HE hadn’t laughed and called me a coward, I wouldn’t have launched myself into the ocean like some kind of untrained dolphin. And if he hadn’t shouted, “Bet you won’t touch it!” — I defo wouldn’t have poked the glowing, possibly cursed, definitely-not-normal rock at the bottom of the sea.